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Date:      Sat, 4 Mar 2000 18:12:15 +0200 (EET)
From:      Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To:        Gavin Cameron <gavin@itworks.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-platforms@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RS/6000 port
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000304173520.13688A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003050003180.78968-100000@maybe.itworks.com.au>

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On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Gavin Cameron wrote:

> 
> Is anyone interested in looking at the feasability of porting freebsd to
> IBMs RS/6000s?

There are differenet kninds of RS/6Ks, and the processor arch. differs
between these. There are:

	* Power
	* Power 2
	* PowerPC (PPC604)
	* Power 3
	* Power 3-II

At least one processor used in RS6K is SMT (even if AIX doesn't enable the
SMT). Like wise, there are both PReP and CHRP machines, possibly also others. 

There is a great variety of things hiding under the R6000 name.

Feasibility depends both on how many people are interested and how much
documentation can be had. 

>
> I'm looking at getting a B50 for a couple of months and would like to get
> FreeBSD running on the box.
> 
> Cheers
> Gavin
> 



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